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ASCE was established to tap the expertise of university security, compliance, export control, and cybersecurity personnel to help address the threat foreign adversaries pose to U.S. institutions of higher learning. In coordination with a number of federal partners, ASCE’s mission is to increase awareness and provide the tools for countering foreign influence in our colleges and universities.
ASCE event increases awareness and provides tools for countering foreign influence in colleges and universities.
CETPP will provide expertise to research organizations to help protect developing technology from those who may attempt to misappropriate these technologies. The CETPP will house counterintelligence, counterproliferation, and cybersecurity expertise to protect data and intellectual property. The RISC Institute will continue to support your enterprise throughout the operation including conducting Due Diligence Reviews designed to identify potential risk associated with proposed collaborators or industry and developing and implementing clear and comprehensive security policies and procedures specific to research activities.
The University Research Security Professional’s Association (URSPA) aims to further the protection of intellectual property, controlled information, key personnel, and critical technologies to mitigate and manage risks from undue foreign influence at U.S. academic institutions conducting research relevant to economic or national security. URSPA also partners with international universities to share best practices and advance research security initiatives globally.
As mandated in the “CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, the NSF SECURE Center, led by the University of Washington with support from nine institutions of higher education, will serve as a clearinghouse for information to empower the research community to identify and mitigate foreign interference that poses risks to the U.S. research enterprise. The NSF SECURE Center will share information and reports on research security risks, provide training on research security to the science and engineering community, and serve as a bridge between the research community and government funding agencies to strengthen cooperation on addressing security concerns.
For more information on NSF Secure please visit the following url: https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-backed-secure-center-will-support-research